Marietje Schaake
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Marietje Schaake MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2009 |
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| Constituency | Netherlands |
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28 October 1978 Leiden, Netherlands |
| Political party |
 DutchDemocrats 66  EUAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
| Website | www |
Marietje Schaake (Dutch pronunciation: [mɑˈritʃə ˈsxɑkə]; born 28 October 1978) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands. She is a member of Democrats 66, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
The Wall Street Journal called her "Europe's most wired politician", while CNN called her a "rising Dutch star" who makes an increasingly rare "passionate and public case for liberalism and globalization". She was voted as one of the "40 MEPs that matter" by Politico in 2016, and was selected as one of the "Politico 28" in 2017". According to Politico, Schaake is the "ultimate digital MEP" whose name has been floated as a potential candidate for the foreign ministry".
Schaake grew up in Leiden and went to high school at the Haags Montessori Lyceum in The Hague. She then left for the United States to study liberal arts at Wittenberg University in Ohio. She went on to study sociology, American studies and new media at the University of Amsterdam. After an internship with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Schaake was granted the Lantos Fellowship of the United States House of Representatives, where she focused on international relations and human rights issues.
Before her political life, Schaake served as an independent advisor to, amongst others, the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands and to the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C.. Other assignments included consulting the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as cultural institutes and companies. Schaake specialized in topics such as transatlantic relations, diversity, integration, civil rights and Muslims in the West. In 2007 she received the Barney Karbank Memorial Award 2007 for outstanding leadership on the issue of human rights.
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